Those listed on the register for a range of offences — including drink driving, committing alcohol-related domestic violence and being taken into protective custody for being intoxicated — will be barred from getting grog.

"It's certainly not going to solve everything, but we believe a Territory-wide measure to blocking the supply of alcohol to those that cause so much harm will make an impact," Health Minister Natasha Fyles said on radio this morning.

The banned drinker register (BDR) was first rolled out in 2011 before it was abandoned about a year later by the incoming Country Liberals government and replaced with a mandatory alcohol treatment regime for problem drinkers.

The new BDR is part of a suite of measures in the Alcohol Harm Reduction Bill, including voluntary rehabilitation programs for those on the register.

"If they want to turn their life around and get off the grog, they will have the support to do so," Ms Fyles said.

The number of people on the register is expected to grow by about 500 people each month, until the majority of the Territory's problem drinkers are identified.

Opposition Leader Gary Higgins supported the re-introduction of the BDR but criticised the Government for not revealing its plans to evaluate the effectiveness of the register.

Ms Fyles said she hoped to announce evaluation measures by next week.

Independent MLA Robyn Lambley questioned why the Government did not wait for recommendations from the independent Alcohol Policy Review it commissioned earlier this year.

"We have a review in place looking at various other strategies that might work in the Northern Territory," Member for Araluen Robyn Lambley said during debate on the bill in Parliament yesterday.

"Why even have a review when, for the most part, these decisions have been made?"

Member for Nelson Gerry Wood said the BDR was "not a bad thing", but he could not support the overall bill.

He said the bill should have gone before a parliamentary committee and that mandatory alcohol rehabilitation should not have been scrapped.

"I think they're dreaming," Mr Wood said.

"I don't think a lot of those people that we looked after under the Alcohol Mandatory Treatment program will find their way to voluntarily looking for treatment."

Mr Wood also said the Government should have waited the for the Alcohol Policy Review to complete its work.